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I make the questionnaires, our grade 3 student answers them... Such is our Mon-Fri routine (except for Mandarin which hubby handles).
School and a Mixed Bag of Emotions
"You can’t imagine your life with kids, until you have them, then you can’t imagine your life without them." ~Author Unknown It's been a week since two of our three sons flew to Manila to attend their classes. Even with the (remaining) 9 year old son at home, doing his usual stuff alternately watching tv, tinkering with his Legos, cutting/ folding/ creating things with paper and playing with the iPad, and making a ruckus all by his lonesome, the house is, weirdly, quiet. I often find myself introspecting... about the nest almost empty now and other similar thoughts. And I struggle to stop myself from wallowing in a mixed bag of emotions. It's not a bad thing, except, I could waste hours doing that. I thought I was totally in control and could dismiss the situation as another milestone, like seeing your child lose his first baby tooth. Nothing a warm hug or an ice cream could not fix. On the contrary, that hug at this time just exacerbates the yearning. It ...
Sometimes, I also do this but not for all my children because I have 4 going to school. But for smaller ones, this is ideal because you can check their spelling as well.
ReplyDeleteyes, only while the kids are young. soon they will have their own study habits and they wouldn't be needing as much help from me :)
DeleteMandarin? Is that an addition to their subjects? I wish to learn Mandarin too. Or even Spanish. :)
ReplyDeletemy hubby is chinese so the boys were enrolled in a chinese jesuit school wirh mandarin as one of their subjects. :)
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